Sunday, 2 August 2009

Najib: You want to protest? We can give you a suitable venue to do so

Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the government is prepared to provide suitable venues like stadiums for the people to hold peaceful gatherings instead of parading in the streets and incoveniencing others.

"We can provide them stadiums where they can shout themselves hoarse till dawn, but don't cause disturbance in the streets," said Datuk Seri Najib.

He was commenting on the rally organised by the Anti-ISA Movement (GMI) against the Internal Security Act (ISA) in the federal capital yesterday. (read here)

Demonstrators numbering thousands took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur - causing massive traffic jams, road closures and chaos in the city - calling for the the abolishment of the ISA, a law that allows for detention without trial.

A total of 589 people were arrested during the demonstration, 530 of whom have been released, while 69 are still being held at the Bukit Jalil police station.

Among them is PKR vice-president and Subang MP R Sivarasa who has been remanded for two days and is expected to be charged in court tomorrow.

The Prime Minister also said he will leave it to the police whether to take action against opposition leaders who were involved in yesterday's protests.

Apparently our PM is not sincere.If he is really sincere and really means what he is saying now, then, why didn't he suggest this to the organisers of the anti-ISA rally instead of ordering the police to take action.If he is really concerned about inconveniencing the public and the lost of millions of dollars of sale then he should have allowed the intended peaceful demonstration.The police caused the inconvenience; the police is responsible for the lost of millions of dollars; the police'saction is shooing away potential investors and visitors.Period.

What's the matter with Najib? Demos should not be held anywhere; they should not be held at all! In Malaysia, demos are not indicators of democracy, they are a passport to chaos, to anarchy. What is Najib thinking?

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Why Hamas is NOT the issue

Mohammed, age six, marched with determination to his bedroom, put on a record of the Fatah marching song, picked up a wooden toy rifle and marched out to the balcony. He pointed the rifle to the sky where minutes ago, Israeli planes flew over dropping bombs on Palestinian refugee sites. Mohammed told me he wanted to be a pilot so he could fight Israeli warplanes. “But Mohammed, the Palestinians do not have planes.” “I don’t care, I will fight them whatever way I can.”Was a resistance fighter born this minute or was he a “future terrorist”? (Beirut 1973)

How does one explain the horrific fate that has befallen caged Gaza – a land saturated with rubble and body parts – carpet-bombed by air, invaded by ground, attacked by sea? Put to the test of history, Israeli “explanations” fail the credibility test. continue here---------------------------------------------Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignoredWe've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more – providing we don't offend the Israelis. It's not clear how many of the Gaza dead are civilians, but the response of the Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel's side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs – who, as we all know, only understand force. ..Continue here

War on Gaza

Israel's failure to learnBy Nir Rosen (Aljazeera)

When George Bush, the US president, first entered the White House as the commander-in-chief in 2001, Palestinians were being killed in the al-Aqsa intifada.

Eight years later, as Bush prepares to leave office, Israel is carrying out one of the largest massacres in its 60-year occupation of Palestine.

The US, then and now, strongly backs Israel's offensive, justifying it as being, in fact, defensive.To continue read here ...